The Education of George W. bu$h* - dan froomkin re: supreme court ruling

[spanone]

President Bush's slow and painful schooling in constitutional law continued today as the Supreme Court ruled for the third time in four years that he had violated a basic precept of the American legal system.

The court ruled 5-4 that Bush cannot deny prisoners at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detentions in federal district court. Some of them have been held already -- without charges -- for more than six years.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, determined that the prisoners in the U.S.-run facility "have the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus. . . ."

"The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law. The Framers decided that habeas corpus, a right of first importance, must be a part of that framework, a part of that law," Kennedy wrote.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/12/BL2008061202172_pf.html

[chaplainM]

1. ...and FOUR justices disagreed with that?! n/t

[spanone]

2. yea, ain't that something????

[malaise]

4. Four lackeys

activists for fascism.

[annabanana]

5. never forget: . .Roberts, Scalia, Alito, Thomas

THESE are the activist judges. They are actively strangling our rights.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

6. So now here's the conundrum:

Given the initials of their names, should we now refer to them as the RATS or the STAR Chamber?

[annabanana]

7. Good catch!. . either works really well . . . n/t

[OneBlueSky]

3. "The Education of George W. Bush" . . . file under "Science Fiction, Fantasy" . . . n/t

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